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Microsoft Corp. unveiled its 'Origami' project Thursday, a paperback-book sized portable computer, which is a hybrid between a laptop PC and a host of mobile devices that the world's biggest software maker hopes will create an entirely new market.
Lighter than two pounds with a seven-inch touch-screen, the new "ultra-mobile" PCs (UMPCs) use microprocessors from Intel Corp. (Research) and run a modified version of Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC edition. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. and China's second largest PC-maker, the Founder Group, are expected to release the first three ultra-mobile PCs, which Microsoft (Research) had code-named "Origami" in an elaborate marketing campaign. MORE ON THIS (CNN website) |
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This is new and has the potential of being big. There was a rumour that its gonna cost only $800. We'll see if that's true.
The factors that will decide if this is a good buy are: battery life speed the number of programs ready to be placed on the UMPC. But sometimes Microsoft over-hypes things. Skinny
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This is one of the first device I have seen in recent years that I have gone damn I need to get one... Similar feeling to the PSP...
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